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Former Steak and Ale on Mangum Rd. To Begin New Life as Strip Club

Whatever steak and ale was left in this building at 2425 Mangum Rd. has been taken off . . . very slowly. Only to be brought back in a new form: A reader who’s noted some heavy construction — including the covering-up of windows — at this former restaurant on the southwest side of 290 over the last month and a half says the new occupants appeared to have applied for a liquor license under the name “Mangum Steakhouse.” Actual name of the new joint: Sunset Strip, a “totally latex free” club where you’ll find “the hottest entertainers in H-Town” — once they’re hired, of course. Scheduled opening date: August 3rd. Any resemblance between Highway 290 and the actual Sunset Strip, of course, is courtesy of the ghost of Anna Nicole Smith, and the Pleasures she left behind on the other side of the freeway at 34th St.

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Been watching them work on this joint for a while now. Right by my warehouse. I’m all for free enterprise….BUT I can’t say I’m happy about this place in the ‘hood. They won’t be getting any of the money I have left.

OK, at the risk of getting into the pervy minutiae of strip club laws, my understanding is that when the city of Houston finally won in all the lawsuits challenging the “new” adult entertainment laws, strip clubs inside the city limits had to make some token effort to cover up boobies to be within the letter of the law. That token effort meant coating the offending tatas with latex–sort of post-modern pasties, as it were. So it created a two-tier titty bar regime–inside the city limits, latex on the boobs; Outside the city limits, nothin’ but skin (upstairs at least).

Sunset Strip seems well inside the city limits, so how are they planning on staying within the legal limits without latex?